Could you live in this English pile?

Rudyard Kipling, author of The Jungle Book and the Just So Stories,
bought Bateman’s, in East Sussex, in 1902. He and his American wife, Carrie,
had discovered the Jacobean house two years earlier, but dithered over
buying it and Bateman’s was let. When the house came on the market again
they did not hesitate and bought it along with the surrounding buildings for
£9,300. “Behold us, lawful owners of a grey stone lichened house – AD 1634
over the door – beamed, paneled, with old oak staircase, and all untouched
and unfaked. It is a good and peaceable place,” Kipling wrote in November
1902. “We have loved it ever since our first sight of it.”